Many children don’t want to, or cannot, talk about their problems. Play therapy is very effective for children aged 3 to 12. The child chooses from a range of activities in the play room. These include: drawing and painting, sand tray, clay, puppets, musical instruments, story-telling, role play. The Play Therapist focuses closely on the child, communicating using the media the child has chosen. Although of course, the child can talk about their problems, when they are ready, on average research shows only 8% of the session is spent in talking.

Between 73% and 84% receiving play therapy to Play Therapy UK’s standards show a positive change – the more severe the problems the higher the change. (Based on over 10,000 cases).

Because play therapy works through unconscious processes, it is important that practitioners are fully qualified and meet the highest standards of practice. Play Therapy is now regulated through the Professional Standards Authority’s Accredited Register programme. The PTUK Register of Play and Creative Arts Therapists warrants the quality and effectiveness of its Registrants. Using unregistered therapists can be dangerous.

Play therapy improves a child’s ability to learn and reduces the chance of adult mental health problems.

As well as kids’ parties, we deliver assemblies and workshops for primary schools, holiday clubs, and Brownie and Cub groups. We also provide fantastic fun workshops for Special Educational Needs groups. Our Boffins work closely with the children and their helpers to extract the very best aspects of the experiments to engage the kids as much as possible.

Call us on 020 8953 5566 or browse our website link below to find out more information (including testimonials) and to book the perfect party your child will never forget!

Excitim is a family business run by Gloria and Mike Taylor. We specialise in age appropriate, switch adapted, special needs toys for children with disabilities and learning difficulties. Our range of award-winning toys are designed to help promote eye tracking, hand-eye co-ordination, finger control, body movement and stimulate investigation and curiosity. Our most popular switch adapted toys include:

Thomas the Tank Engine

Freddie Fish Bubbles

Talking, Singing and dancing character toys

Older children find our switch accessible camera and iPad switches an easy way to take pictures, play music and use switch accessible iPad apps.

See our website to view our full range and buy securely online. You can also read what parents and professionals say about our toys on the ‘User Testimonials’ page, check out the awards we’ve won and read our Blog to find out about new toys, organisations we support and lots more.

Feel free to get in touch – we are really friendly and may be able to help you find something just right.

Amazing kids activities using the world’s best air-drying clay - JumpingCLAY. What will you create? Our favourite activities:

Themed 1 & 2 Hr Clay Workshops

Community Group Activity Workshops

Kids Birthday Parties

After-School Programmes for Your School

Holiday CAMPS & Schemes

Mini-Make Workshops at Events

Baby & Toddler Hand Print Workshops

All activities are run by trained instructors and based on our basic shapes, characters, colours and simple step-by-step modelling guides. After the workshop you will take your creation home that day, leave it to dry for 24 hours and you will have your own toy to treasure forever.

Community Group Workshops - Come to us, or we can come to you!

Let us design the perfect workshop for your group. Visit your local academy or have your local activity provider come out to you. Perfect for:

Nurseries

Pre-Schools

Schools

Play Groups

Youth Centres

Events, Fairs & Fetes

Hospitals

and many more

Get Creative with our Growing Product Range

JumpingCLAY is a jasmine scented, mess-free clay that when rolled in ball, bounces when thrown or dropped. There is no need to bake and finished creations are simply left overnight to dry, once dry they can be treasured forever.

Arts & crafts workshops for children in Belfast, Derby , Elland, Bristol, Worcester, York and Neath in Wales and Arts & Crafts parties throughout Bristol, Derbyshire, Northern Ireland, Somerset, West Yorkshire and Worcestershire

Splash About designs and develops some of the most innovative, award-winning baby and children’s swimwear, buoyancy aids and sun protection clothing available on the market today.

Here we choose our essentials for a stress-free fun time at the pool or the beach!

A Happy Nappy: this reusable neoprene swim nappy is so effective at preventing unwelcome leaks in the pool it’s the only brand insisted upon by 95% of UK swim schools and it’s recommended by the British Standards Guidelines for Baby Swimming. No need to wear with a disposable so it’s cost effective and environmentally friendly too!

Splash About’s range of FloatSuits and Jackets with adjustable buoyancy are the perfect learn-to-swim aids, giving children from 12months+ complete freedom of movement and positioning them correctly in water for learning-to-swim. Splash About’s FloatSuits are the only brand to have a full back zip, ideal for easy dressing!

Stay sun-safe with Splash About’s range of UV All-in-One’s, rash tops and bottoms, made from soft stretchy Nylon Lycra and offering UPF50+ the highest sun protection found in fabric. View our full collection

KindleKids is a child psychology service run by an experienced highly specialist Chartered Clinical Child Psychologist and specialist team. We work together with parents (and schools where appropriate) to assess, understand, support and provide strategies for managing a range of difficulties and concerns.

We offer:

Educational / Psychological Assessment

Therapeutic support to children and teenagers

Parenting support

Consultation to schools

We can help with a range of emotional, behavioural, social and learning issues that may be contributing to a child or teenager feeling unhappy, lacking in confidence or feeling out of control. Following psychological assessment, the child psychologist works with parents so that individual treatment plans can be developed to support them and their families in understanding and addressing their difficulties while at the same time acknowledging and nurturing their relative strengths, in order to help them to reach their potential.

Please see our website for parenting tips and more information about who we are, how we can help and what we offer.

You are also welcome to call us for a free telephone consultation to see how we can help prior to booking an appointment.

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SenseToys

SenseToys offers practical information and an interesting range of toys and activities for pre-school children and particularly for children with special educational needs – all based on first hand experience!

The emphasis of our resources to promote the acquisition of language through play for both verbal and non-verbal children.

SenseToys was set up by parents of two children with special needs, one with a language delay and one with autism. The carefully selected range of resources aim at helping children acquire language through play by helping to make learning fun and rewarding. Even the most ordinary toys can help your child if you know how to use them effectively.

The range includes thick wooden jigsaws with simple non-stylised pieces, lovely fabric beanie bags to teach shapes and colours, threading activities with large holes and chunky pieces, cause and effect toys and a great selection of tactile and sensory balls for lots of squishy bouncy fun. We also now include basic games and actvities to help with alphabet, counting and language concepts such as prepositions, opposites, small medium and large and we have a new range of toys to facilitate construction play.

Tel: 0845 257 0849 for a catalogueWeb: www.sensetoys.com

Tel:

0845 257 0849

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RwRR

Is your child/adult learner struggling with spelling and related skills?Is your child/adult learner underachieving or is possibly dyslexic?Do you want to see him/her succeed NOW?

RwRR can help you. RwRR (Read it wRite it Remember it) is a unique multisensory STRATEGY, which deals with common areas of failure regarding spelling and related skills and due to its flexible nature it can be tailor-made to individual, group or class needs with little or no preparation.

Our selection of workbooks, flashcards and guides give parents and teachers the tools to help learners acquire the necessary skills for confident spelling. This will in turn help with better long and short-term memory, better concentration, improved self-esteem and encourages independent learning.

Visit our website today and discover an exciting way forward and one you will want to tell others about!

Mobile: 07752 599968Email: dianeguerard@hotmail.com

Tel:

(01344) 429599

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Established for over 20 years TFH are providers of carefully selected fun products designed to help you or those in your care enjoy life, and achieve more. Positive experiences unlock potential and so our "toys" will lead to functional as well as emotional benefits including:

The World-wide Education Service (WES) is one of the leading providers of home education courses worldwide. We supply accredited comprehensive, up-to-date learning courses for children aged 4-14 years. No previous teaching experience is required.

WES is designed to create a school in the home, this is particularly beneficial where education facilities are limited or, where there is a need to "top up" local school education.

Our service includes:

An initial assessment of your child’s educational level.

Courses tailored to the individual needs of your child, based on the National Curriculum of England.

All necessary books and materials to support the subjects.

An introduction from your WES personal tutor who will advise and support you in your role of teacher.

Regular assessments of your child’s progress.

A final report detailing your child’s educational level to hand on to future schools.

A Certificate of Completion

WES is also able to offer a home schooling package for special needs children. Coursework can be adapted to accommodate specific requirements.

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Pure Living Collection

Pure Living Collection is an online store that sells a fabulous range of luxurious duvets, pillows, mattress protectors and associated bedding products. This website offers invaluable advice on the most appropriate bedding available for children.

Children just love the feel of the soft light-weight, hypoallergenic Spundown Duvets. Mums love them too, for this is the award winning duvet that just loves to be washed, time and time again. For summer the 3.0 tog Pure Cotton Duvet is a popular choice of children’s duvet as it will help your child maintain a regular temperature on warm summer nights.

The polyester hollow-fibre filling of the Anti Allergy Duvets and Pillows contain material in which house dust mites cannot live, thus playing a major role in helping to relieve allergies caused by them. Alternatively, the Anti Allergy Duvet, Pillow and Mattress Protectors all provide an effective barrier between your child and the dust mites and their allergens.

Pure Living Collection also offers some pillows with slightly less filling and therefore perfect for smaller shoulders, whilst waterproof mattress protectors offer their mattresses protection against those all too common accidents and spills.

Web: www.purelivingcollection.com

Tel:

0844 8000097

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Feel Good Friends is an award winning company all about helping children to feel good about themselves and their world. The range of unique educational products all help to build confidence and self esteem in a fun way.

We want children to focus on what they are good at, why they are special, and how they can help others to feel good.

Here are some of the benefits:

Teaches about feelings and emotions

Calms and relaxes

Eases tension in body and mind

Encourages sharing and caring

Builds confidence and self esteem

Enforces positive behaviour

Non - competitive

Teaches counting and colour recognition

Assists with setting positive life goals

Establishes empathy

Children with high self esteem do better at school, form relationships easier, have better concentration and are generally happier and healthier. The Feel Good Friends range helps to build emotional intelligence which is the ability to understand your own emotions and those of people around you.

We all want our children to feel happy and confident so bring the Feel Good factor into your home with the Feel Good Friends. The range includes games, books, relaxation Cd and posters.